Lemuel Sawyer

Lemuel Sawyer (1777-9 January 1852) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 1) from 1807 to 1813 (succeeding Thomas Wynns and preceding William H. Murfree), from 1817 to 1823 (succeeding Murfree and preceding Alfred M. Gatlin), and from 1825 to 1829 (succeeding Gatlin and preceding William B. Shepard).

Biography
Lemuel Sawyer was born near Elizabeth City in Camden County, North Carolina in 1777. He became a lawyer in Elizabeth City in 1804 and served in the House of Commons from 1800 to 1801, in the US House of Representatives from 1807 to 1813, 1817 to 1823, and 1825 to 1829, and a department clerk in Washington DC until his death in 1852.